Auto-Start Resumable Session upon TTA restart

Question

We use TTA on our administrative servers and we were wondering if there was
a way to start a resumable application session we defined in the object
manager upon restarting the Tarantella server.
Basically we have a monitoring utility that our admins can view using TTA by
logging into our "Monitor User's" (monuser) webtop. It takes a while for
the app to start up and it also graphs some recent historical data, like
"Windows Task Manager/Performance Tab".
The Ideal Sequence of events:
Tarantella Server gets started (or restarted)
monuser's "monitor_app" gets started in the background somewhere and then
goes into TTA's Object "Suspended" mode
Any Admin user logs in as "monuser" and click's on the resumable session
Admin users can go in and view the suspended monitor_app session
Any ideas?
Cyrus

Answer 1

Rob wrote:
CM wrote:
We use TTA on our administrative servers and we were wondering if there was
a way to start a resumable application session we defined in the object
manager upon restarting the Tarantella server.
Basically we have a monitoring utility that our admins can view using TTA by
logging into our "Monitor User's" (monuser) webtop. It takes a while for
the app to start up and it also graphs some recent historical data, like
"Windows Task Manager/Performance Tab".
The Ideal Sequence of events:
Tarantella Server gets started (or restarted)
monuser's "monitor_app" gets started in the background somewhere and then
goes into TTA's Object "Suspended" mode
Any Admin user logs in as "monuser" and click's on the resumable session
Admin users can go in and view the suspended monitor_app session
Any ideas?
Cyrus
Cyrus,
As fas as I know, I don't think you can accomplish the above by just
using Tarantella alone.
One idea could be the following (never tried it personally); after the
Tarantella services get restarted, you could write a script which fires
up the Unix/Linux native client (which can be customized via command
line parameters) as to log in using a predetermined account (eg,
monuser) and start your application.
After a certain amount of time, assuming the application is resumable
you could "kill" the script (and the native client itself) so that
Tarantella can suspend your application.
Thus making, as soon as your admins log in using the monuser account,
they __should__ have "presto" access to the suspended application.
More info about customizing the Unix/Linux native client here:
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-4309-10/en-us/base/indepth/unix_nc_customising.html
Sorry, this is the right URL:
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-4309-10/en-us/base/indepth/nc_running_cmdline.html
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